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Google Drive or nah?
A: Yes, because I can access it from any device.
2. Hell nah, I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them.
Maybe "yes for fanfic, no for anything that I actually intend on getting published."
It's a weird week. I wish I could have camped out longer/had more time to have camped out. The festival campground was in a piney wooded area, and the smell of pine resin took me back to childhood vacations in New Mexico. I did nab a couple of pine cones.
Work has been brutal. They rolled out the rest of the updates, and I'm glad there is a mid-week holiday because I feel like I've just been trying to keep my head above water trying to adjust to the new system.
Occasionally I'll look back on a fandom or piece of film or literature that had a significant impact on my life and re-evaluate its meaning in the context of my current mindset. This week it's been about the Hannibal Lecter franchise in general, starting with the books.
Silence Of The Lambs was my first Real Adult Novel For Grown Ups (as opposed to the pulp sci fi and fantasy I had subsisted on since I was like six or so) which I read when I was 14. The film was coming out, and I don't remember what it was that intrigued me about it. There was a lot about it that I didn't understand - though I think even back then, my fascination with the good doctor was about recognition of The Other, as a character who reveled in being The Other - and a recognition and maybe even the beginning of acceptance of The Other within myself. (I don't eat people lol, but the cannibalism aspect can be seen as a metaphor for a lot of things.)
I'd been around the LGBT community long enough even as a kid to feel that there was something inherently problematic in how Buffalo Bill was depicted, even with the pains that Thomas Harris took to insist via the narrative that the killer "isn't a real Tran." Because that in itself has become a majorly problematic concept, hasn't it?
I didn't get to see the film until it came out on VHS, but by then I had already seen the then-existing adaption of the previous novel in the series, Red Dragon - only the film (made in 1986) was called Manhunter, because of the still-then-ongoing Satanic Panic. The movie is directed by Michael Mann, and looks and sounds dated compared to all the other entries in the series, but I think that works for it. I still love this adaption. Its OST was for many their first exposure to the band Shriekback, one of my favorites. (Just...don't watch it on a 4K or HD TV unless you have the remastered Blu Ray version. Trust.)
People have favorably or unfavorably talked about Brian Cox's portrayal of Hannibal Lecter, and I think his version is the most believable. This is how someone like Dr. Lecter would probably present In Real Life. Brian Cox talks about his inspiration for his portrayal of the character here.
I don't think I saw the remake with Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton until about ten years after it came out, because I was still that much of a fan of Manhunter.
I read the novel "Hannibal" in 2006, immediately post-Matrix Cult. I'm not sure why I picked it up, but it was weirdly cathartic for some reason? I like the film version more though. I feel like the film ending is way more true to the characters somehow.
"Hannibal Rising" was better than people led me to believe. The book is good imho, the film is fun even if it is the weakest entry in the series.
I have to say that Mads Mikkelsen's portrayal of Dr. Lecter most resembles what I was seeing in my mind when I originally read Silence Of The Lambs. His version is my favorite, and I have to say the Hannibal TV series is my favorite thing in the franchise. I love the fact that, in a universe that contains Supernatural and Sherlock, which have had showrunners and performers who actively participate in "queer baiting" while covertly or sometimes even overtly sneering at fans who are invested in the idea of a homosexual relationship between the characters, the creators and performers in Hannibal are pretty much, "YUP THEY'RE GAY, AND WE LOVE IT THAT THEY'RE GAY!" though apparently it took more than one season to get everyone on board. Or as one post put it,
( But all versions of Hannigram are valid! )
Current Mood:
A: Yes, because I can access it from any device.
2. Hell nah, I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them.
Maybe "yes for fanfic, no for anything that I actually intend on getting published."
It's a weird week. I wish I could have camped out longer/had more time to have camped out. The festival campground was in a piney wooded area, and the smell of pine resin took me back to childhood vacations in New Mexico. I did nab a couple of pine cones.
Work has been brutal. They rolled out the rest of the updates, and I'm glad there is a mid-week holiday because I feel like I've just been trying to keep my head above water trying to adjust to the new system.
Occasionally I'll look back on a fandom or piece of film or literature that had a significant impact on my life and re-evaluate its meaning in the context of my current mindset. This week it's been about the Hannibal Lecter franchise in general, starting with the books.
Silence Of The Lambs was my first Real Adult Novel For Grown Ups (as opposed to the pulp sci fi and fantasy I had subsisted on since I was like six or so) which I read when I was 14. The film was coming out, and I don't remember what it was that intrigued me about it. There was a lot about it that I didn't understand - though I think even back then, my fascination with the good doctor was about recognition of The Other, as a character who reveled in being The Other - and a recognition and maybe even the beginning of acceptance of The Other within myself. (I don't eat people lol, but the cannibalism aspect can be seen as a metaphor for a lot of things.)
I'd been around the LGBT community long enough even as a kid to feel that there was something inherently problematic in how Buffalo Bill was depicted, even with the pains that Thomas Harris took to insist via the narrative that the killer "isn't a real Tran." Because that in itself has become a majorly problematic concept, hasn't it?
I didn't get to see the film until it came out on VHS, but by then I had already seen the then-existing adaption of the previous novel in the series, Red Dragon - only the film (made in 1986) was called Manhunter, because of the still-then-ongoing Satanic Panic. The movie is directed by Michael Mann, and looks and sounds dated compared to all the other entries in the series, but I think that works for it. I still love this adaption. Its OST was for many their first exposure to the band Shriekback, one of my favorites. (Just...don't watch it on a 4K or HD TV unless you have the remastered Blu Ray version. Trust.)
People have favorably or unfavorably talked about Brian Cox's portrayal of Hannibal Lecter, and I think his version is the most believable. This is how someone like Dr. Lecter would probably present In Real Life. Brian Cox talks about his inspiration for his portrayal of the character here.
I don't think I saw the remake with Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton until about ten years after it came out, because I was still that much of a fan of Manhunter.
I read the novel "Hannibal" in 2006, immediately post-Matrix Cult. I'm not sure why I picked it up, but it was weirdly cathartic for some reason? I like the film version more though. I feel like the film ending is way more true to the characters somehow.
"Hannibal Rising" was better than people led me to believe. The book is good imho, the film is fun even if it is the weakest entry in the series.
I have to say that Mads Mikkelsen's portrayal of Dr. Lecter most resembles what I was seeing in my mind when I originally read Silence Of The Lambs. His version is my favorite, and I have to say the Hannibal TV series is my favorite thing in the franchise. I love the fact that, in a universe that contains Supernatural and Sherlock, which have had showrunners and performers who actively participate in "queer baiting" while covertly or sometimes even overtly sneering at fans who are invested in the idea of a homosexual relationship between the characters, the creators and performers in Hannibal are pretty much, "YUP THEY'RE GAY, AND WE LOVE IT THAT THEY'RE GAY!" though apparently it took more than one season to get everyone on board. Or as one post put it,
( But all versions of Hannigram are valid! )
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